Terrible Lizards

Terrible Lizards episodes:

• 05.29.2024

  TLS10E05 Live Dinosaur Questions

  Live edited recording at The Oxford Fire Station on 25/05/2024. Live Anniversary Q&A; for the Oxford Podcast Festival It’s the 4th (!) anniversary of the launch of Terrible Lizards and this came at a perfect time as Iszi and...

  
• 04.22.2024

  TLS10E04 Dinosaurs of the Antarctic

  We all know about how common dinosaurs can be in places like Europe, Argentina, the US, China and Mongolia, but they have turned up in dozens and dozens of countries and on every continent, including Antarctica. Unsurprisingly, it’s a very...

  
• 03.27.2024

  TLS10E03 Dinosaur footprints

  Dinosaur footprints with Peter Falkingham Footprints and trackways are an amazing source of data on how dinosaurs moved and what they did. But interpreting these can be a real nightmare since it’s hard to work out the interactions between a...

  
• 02.28.2024

  TLs10E02 Coelophysis

  We don’t often delve into the Triassic since Dave is not well versed in that time and the animals that were around then, but there were some very important animals that we’ve unduly overlooked across the last 9 series. Happily,...

  
• 01.31.2024

  TLS10E01 200 years of dinosaurs

  The year 2024 is the 200th anniversary of the naming of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus. While ‘Dinosauria’ wouldn’t be coined till 1842 (so we have a fair wait before that anniversary kicks in, and doubtless will be marked with another...

  
• 12.27.2023

  TLS09E12 The Dinosaur who must not be named!

  Stegosaurus with Dr Susie Maidment THE TIME HAS COME. For ages Dave, for very Dave reasons refused to cover one dinosaur. Now, we find out all about it with an expert in the field.  Last year's mystery xmas present to...

  
• 11.29.2023

  TLS09E11 The Bite Stuff

  Longtime listeners will be familiar with the fact that Dave has spent a lot of time looking at and working on various bites marks on dinosaur bones left by the carnivorous theropods. These can tell us an enormous amount about...

  
• 10.25.2023

  TLS09E10 Dino Docs!

  Dinosaur documentaries are booming again so it’s time to blow the lid on some insider secrets of how these get made. (Alternative description: Dave complains for an hour about being messed around by TV companies and ignored by the very...

  
• 09.27.2023

  TLS09E09 Odd ideas in palaeontology

  Odd ideas in palaeontology Palaeontology as a scientific field is beyond popular in the media and with the public but that also means it draws a lot of attention from those with, let’s call them, questionable ideas. And no group...

  
• 08.30.2023

  TLS09E08 Mega Questions Episode

  It is the mega questions episode! Due to Dave etch-a-sketching everything in his life, making things like access to the internet an unusual hurdle, we decided to do answer as many questions we could in an hour. We didn’t manage...

  
• 07.26.2023

  TLS09E07 Elvis is extinct!

  Petrodactyle and Pterosaur Growth Dave has had a productive year for pterosaur papers and now two are out in quick succession(!) so get ready for a double-whammy podcast of him rolling his eyes when Iszi mentions flappy-flaps and he’s trying...

  
• 06.28.2023

  TLS09E06 Utah Rapture

  This week a ‘what I did on my holidays’ from Dave, though it wasn’t a holiday and he dug a hole in Utah and looked at a ton of museums and quarries. The Morrison Formation is a legendary slice of...

  
• 05.31.2023

  TLS09E05 A Sternum talking to

  Pterosaurs flew! No big shock there, but obviously flight places major constraints and selective pressures on the skeleton. This should mean all pterosaurs have standard, not-that-varied flight anatomy (in the same way most walking animals have similar leg anatomy).  It...

  
• 04.26.2023

  TLs09E04 Don't Mamention the neck

  Sauropods in general don’t get the love they should on Terrible Lizards because, well, Dave doesn’t know that much about them (and everyone knows theropods are best anyways). However, there’s more than a couple that are both well-known enough in...

  
• 03.29.2023

  TLS09E03 Dinosaur Displays

  This is an area we have definitely covered before but it’s one of perennial interest and keeps coming round with new studies, how can we tell what ancient animals were doing with weird features. More specifically, how do claims that...

  
• 02.22.2023

  TLS09E02 Dinosaurs News

  Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals have been a hit in the media for about as long as palaeontologists have been digging them up. But even in the modern age of digital communication, there is almost always an intermediate (and often...

  
• 01.25.2023

  TLS09E01 Displaying Dinosaurs

  We are into series 9 now and still going, though starting with this episode, in a bid to be more consistent and less panicked about completing series and the gaps between, we’re moving to being a monthly podcast. So no...

  
• 11.30.2022

  TLS08E08 Were T.Rex 70 percent bigger?

  The end of the series is our favourite - we answer your questions!  A massive thank you to our patrons who contributed the questions. Go to patreon.com/terriblelizardds for a bonus episode out next week. Do keep in touch #terriblelizards @iszi_lawrence...

  
• 11.23.2022

  TLS08E07 Chewing Triceratops with Ali Nabavizadeh

  Dinosaur jaws and feeding with Ali Nabavizadeh We started with theropod feeding but what about the herbivores? This week we’re joined by Ali Nabavizadeh who specialises in the jaws and teeth of the ornithischian dinosaurs and how these work and...

  
• 11.16.2022

  TLS8E06 Biomechanics of Dinosaur Motion

  Although we looked at some biomechanical work earlier this series, this time we get into the real depths of how dinosaurs moved. John Hutchinson joins us with tales of galloping crocodiles and white dots on elephants in an effort to...

  
• 11.09.2022

  TLS08E05 Sauropodcast

  Some dinosaurs haven’t had enough love on here (though some get what they deserve, I mean, who even likes Stegosaurus?) and chief among them are the sauropodomorphs. However, this week we make a belated and desperate attempt to correct that...

  
• 11.02.2022

  TLS08E04 The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs

  Crystal Palace Dinosaurs with Mark Witton We have covered palaeoart here from time to time and the process of producing images of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life (as both technical illustrations and more creative life reconstructions) but one of the...

  
• 10.26.2022

  TLS08E03 British Iguanodontids

  British iguanodontids with Joe Bonsor We have touched on Iguanodon before as one of the earliest named dinosaurs and an animal with some interesting relatives and famously spiky thumbs but they never really got the attention that they should have...

  
• 10.19.2022

  TLS08E02 Black Market fossils and Ornithocheirid pterosaurs

  Following up on the previous series where pterosaurs dominated, we had to sneak in a bit more of them here. Dave has always had an aversion to the toothy ornithocheirids as while so many of them turn up in 3D...

  
• 10.12.2022

  TLS08E01 Tyrannosaurus Bites

  Theropod jaw biomechanics with Manabu Sakamoto We are still going! We are back and like last series, we’re taking a bit of a different tack to the previous ones and here we are having experts on every episode in a...

  
• 09.28.2022

  TL Bonus Jurassic pterosaur: Dearc Sgiathanach

  The new series will start on the 12th of October! If you would like to support us and get our bonus episodes sooner - please consider becoming a patron on patreon.com/terriblelizards. Pterosaurs living during the Jurassic period were thought to...

  
• 07.20.2022

  TLS07E08 Did Pterosaurs Squawk?

  If you could give the paleontology field NASA's budget what would you do with it? Ever used laser-stimulated fluorescence? How do pterosaurs sleep? Was was Irritator challengeri? When did birds wiggle their hips? How can you tell if species shared...

  
• 07.13.2022

  TLS07E07 How Science Works

  How science works In another in the increasingly long line of topics we probably should have covered quite a few series ago, this week we are addressing some of the fundamentals of what science actually IS. How does it all...

  
• 07.06.2022

  TLS07E06 Working with dinosaurs

  This is perhaps the question that gets asked the most and so it’s time to address it properly (well, we are 7 seasons in, we were going to get to it sooner or later). So this week we are talking...

  
• 06.29.2022

  TLS07E05 Pteranodon

  Perhaps the best known, and most often misrepresented, pterosaur is Pteranodon. It has become the archetypal pterosaur and is always in the background of every Mesozoic scene (especially with T. rex) to let you know that the pterosaurs are out...

  
• 06.22.2022

  TL0704 Anurognathids

  From the very biggest to the smallest, anurognathids were the little fuzz balls of pterosaurs that barely reached 1m wingspan as adults. They were bat-like hawkers, catching insects on the wing with their giant gapes and tiny teeth. Although rare,...

  
• 06.15.2022

  TLS07E03 Azhdarchids

  If most people know one thing about pterosaurs (well one correct thing rather than them being flying dinosaurs or bird ancestors) it’s that they got really big. At the top end they hit over 10 m in wingspan and probably...

  
• 06.08.2022

  TLS07E02 Pterosaurs in Motion

  It’s hopefully not a surprise at this point that pterosaurs were fully powered and capable fliers and that they were not passive gliders or could only get airbourne through jumping off of cliffs. While we do talk about flight here,...

  
• 06.01.2022

  TLS07E01 Pterodactylus

  We’ve run out of dinosaurs (stega what now?) and so thanks to popular demand (well, Dave’s demand) we’re doing (almost) an entire series on pterosaurs! Everyone’s favourite Mesozoic flying reptiles (well, Dave’s favourite) are getting a series to spread their...

  
• 04.27.2022

  TL BONUS Dinosaur Education

  This is a bonus episode previously released to our patrons on Patreon. If you want to support us, and get more content please visit patreon.com/terriblelizards.  Terrible Lizards is, at least in theory, there for dinosaur lovers of all ages and...

  
• 03.30.2022

  TLS06E08 Dancing Dinosaurs and Bat Noses

  The Questions episode! Untapped fossils, bad evolution, therapod bites, spaniel ears, courtship dances and MORE! Big thanks to everyone who sent in their questions. Martin, Glen, Mathew, Sam, Kim (https://kimralls.co.uk/), Gutza, Robbie, John, Marlon aaaand John. We will be back...

  
• 03.23.2022

  TLS06E07 The Future of Dinosaurs

  The Future of Dinosaurs No guest this week as Dave manages to ramble on for an entire hour on his own again (well, Ok, Iszi helps him ramble). To be fair, he’s got a new book out and since its...

  
• 03.16.2022

  TLS06E06 Alvarezsaurs

  Alvarezsaurs From a micro dinosaur to the very smallest, this time out we’re looking at the little alvarezsaurs which include the smallest of the non-avian dinosaurs and with several species that were the tiniest yet found in the Mesozoic. Dr...

  
• 03.09.2022

  TLS06E05 Evolution

  Evolution In one way it’s more than a bit late to only talk about evolution when we are 6 and a bit series into Terrible Lizards and this should arguably have been episode 1 in series 1 but here we...

  
• 03.02.2022

  TL S06E04 Microraptor

  We’ve already mentioned Gigantoraptor this series so let’s get down to the other end of the etymological scale and look at Microraptor. This little dromaeosaur was one of the first fully feathered dinosaurs to be found and is famous for...

  
• 02.23.2022

  TLS06E03 Dinosaur Diets

  At various times in previous episodes we have talked about what various dinosaurs ate and bits of data about diet, but this time we’re going to take a more systematic look at how palaeontologists work out the diet of ancient...

  
• 02.16.2022

  TLS06E02 Oviraptorosaurs

  Back to dinosaurs so you can relax (though the pterosaurs will return next series). This time out, we are going with the oviraptorosaurs - and note the long name, it’s not just oviraptors we are covering. As is common, the...

  
• 02.09.2022

  TLS06E01 Rhamphorhynchus

  Series 6? That can’t be right. Surely this is 3 or 4 or something, 5 at the outside. Blimey. Anyway, we are back and we have new episodes though we are cheating already by starting with a pterosaur and talking...

  
• 02.07.2022

  TLS06E00 Series 6 Trailer

  A slightly silly intro to series 6 of Terrible Lizards, a podcast about dinosaurs which will be starting on Wednesday 9th of February 2022. (The guest on this clip is Dr Steve Cross).

  
• 12.08.2021

  TLS04 Bonus Histology

  We talk to Yara Haridy who has just completed her PhD on the histology of dinosaurs and other reptiles. On the podcast we normally just talk about whole bones and skeletons (or at least the bits of them that are...

  
• 11.17.2021

  TLS05E08 Are there dinosaurs on the moon?

  Are there dinosaurs on the moon? What are digs in Antarctica like? Dave Hone and iszi Lawrence answer your dinosaur Questions! At the end of each series Iszi and Dave trawl through all the comments and messages from our listeners....

  
• 11.10.2021

  TLS05E07 PaleoArt

  With every big new paper or museum exhibition there will be artwork depicting dinosaurs as actual living animals, as well as all kinds of other representations of these animals be it pop-art or cartoons. Today we have a special with...

  
• 11.03.2021

  TLs05E06 Torosaurus

  Way back in the mists of time (last year) we did a whole podcast on Triceratops, one of the most famous dinosaurs of all. But is Triceratops not all it seems and is it in fact just part of a...

  
• 10.27.2021

  TLS05E05 Heterodontosaurs

  We’ve covered one small, unadorned and under-rated herbivorous ornithischian already this series in Psittacosaurus and here’s another one in the remarkable little heterodonotosaurs. Another set of animals for which we have some superb skeletons and lots of interesting features that...

  
• 10.20.2021

  TLS05E04 The Big Bird Debate

  Iszi is in Dave's house! We have talked many times about the fact that birds are dinosaurs and we’ve covered some of the modern evidence that links them together, but how did we get to this point? In this edition...